!!!Kont, Paul

b. Vienna, Aug. 19, 1920, 
d. Vienna, Dec. 26, 2000, composer. Also pianist and conductor; 
developed a new form of tonality ("Third Tonality", on the basis of 
non-tempered tuning). Awarded the Austrian State Prize for Music in 
1964.

!Works
operas (Lysistrate, 1961; Traumleben, 1963), oratorio (Vom 
Manne und vom Weibe, 1979), symphonies, orchestral and piano works, 
dancing plays (Annoncen, 1956; Daphnis und Chloe, 1987), film and 
incidental music, lieder (120 songs on poems by Eichendorff, also set 
works by J. Weinheber etc. to music). - Theoretical works: 
Antianorganikum, 1967; Entwurf einer Neuen Tonalitaet, in: Melos 
1971/1972.

!Literature
P. K., exhibition catalogue, edited by G. Brosche, 
Austrian National Library, Vienna 1986.



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